Myopia

Description

obsolete_myopia: ['A refractive error in which rays of light entering the EYE parallel to the optic axis are brought to a focus in front of the RETINA when accommodation (ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR) is relaxed. This results from an overly curved CORNEA or from the eyeball being too long from front to back. It is also called nearsightedness.']

Data source
FinnGen phenocode H7_MYOPIA
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: H521, ICD-8: 37002
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: H521, ICD-8: 37002
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 4
First defined in version DF2
Ontology
DOID 11830
GWAS catalog 0003927

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 906 575 331
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.68 0.77 0.58
Mean age at first event (years) 38.69 38.96 38.23
Median number of events / individual 1 1 1

Clinical metrics

Sex All Female Male
Recurrence within 6 months (%) 9.93 9.91 9.97
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 1.32 1.22 1.51

Associations